Success Stories
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June 09, 2020
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2019 #1: Advancement of a Heavy Vehicle Driving Simulator
Oregon State University Professor, David Hurwitz, is the director of the Driving and Bicycling Simulator Lab on the OSU campus. Dr. Hurwitz and his team explore human interactions in the transportation environment via simulation. Recently, his lab has added a heavy vehicle simulator that enables them to investigate a whole new area of human factors including things like truck and bicycle conflict in and around loading zones.
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January 03, 2019
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #12: Developing a User-Friendly RAI Software Application
Over the past several years, PacTrans has been supporting a team of researchers investigating critical slopes and rockfall. There have been many meaningful outputs, outcomes, and impacts from this work. One output was the development of a Rockfall Activity Index (RAI). Read More
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December 20, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #11: Changing the Paradigm of Performance Evaluation of Transportation Infrastructure through the use of Formation Factor of Concrete
One of the most important steps for producing high quality concrete is to specify its performance using a quantifiable metric that can also be monitored in quality control and quality assurance of protocols. Recently, a conceptual specification has been provisionally approved by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) for use in concrete pavements with potential extension to concrete bridge decks. Unlike traditional workability and strength based specifications, this new specification also deals with issues of salt damage, freeze-thaw, corrosion and volume change. Read More
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December 19, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #10: Bridging the Gap between Bicycle Research and Practice
Over the past several years, PacTrans has funded a number of project investigated by Oregon State University Associate Professor of Civil & Construction Engineering, Haizhong Wang, on bicycle safety, including one on crowdsourcing bicycle travel data and one where he did a geospatial analysis of bicycle network “level of stress.” Read More
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December 13, 2018
PacTrans Technology Transfer Success Story 2018 #9: The ‘Final 50 Feet: Urban Goods Delivery System Tool Kit’ for Transportation Professionals
In 2017, researchers from the University of Washington’s Supply Chain and Transportation Logistics (SCTL) Center, with PacTrans research funding, facilitated a pilot test with the hopes of reducing the number of failed first delivery attempts in urban buildings. Read More
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